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My father gave me his laptop to look into

It’s an old gateway, 1.4 Ghz, Pentium 4, 256 RAM and it doesn’t even have a built-in wireless, I remember last time I had to go buy him a card. Yeah not to forget a dead battery that won’t even charge!

So for me to fix his laptop, of course I need Internet connection and since I can’t connect through the magical radio waves from the comfort of my room I needed to take the whole thing and sit within the cable reach to the DSL modem

If you have a laptop that you use for work, why give it to kids, every game ever existed is installed and along with it all the web toolbars out there!!! Everything runs at start up. Virus definition outdated. Windows update never installed anything. Total mess

As I was scanning the 30 GB space, it took 3 hours!! Of course who would blame it! And then it hit me and I remembered, I had a RAM chip in my handbag somewhere ;)

Well how it got into my handbag that’s another story, but I plugged it in and the speed doubled

He was asking me about buying a new laptop and I told him what he used it for and then he said “What about this air one, I heard about MAC air”

“Ouch!!!”

Finally I am going for MAC hunting, though not for me but for dad, nevertheless, it is exciting. I’ll list all the stores that sell the MAC goods and we’ll schedule the shopping later :D

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Sweet Memories

I was going through my camera today and realized that I haven’t shared my photos of my Dubai trip ;p So here they are. I think they are OK, since I am not good in photography, but give me some slack ;D ENJOY

note

First day, my brother and I shared a room and of course I woke up early though we slept late. So I left him this “brotherly” note ;P before I headed outside exploring

coolsprite

3aysheen eldoor ;P

burgerking

“الجوع كافر” I haven’t had burger king in ages but everywhere was crowded so we found this semi-crowded and I ate everything!

hamburger

My brother the “وحش”

chickensalad

I had this sweet chicken ceaser salad, but it was too sweet I couldn’t eat it all. If I were in Kuwait, I would’ve had it take away and had my sister taste it, I know she will like it

morroco

This is a Moroccan restaurant we went to, my brother’s dish was so much tastier, he had meat. It was so tender and delicious

lamcyplaza

This is the first complex I walked to alone. Lamcy Plaze, can you see the crazy clown up and down the pole. He’s fake. But that was creeeepy!

baloon

We didn’t have time to ride this :(

beautifuldresses

Me like the dresses but they were expensive

iwantyou

I WANT YOU … -no comment ;P-

terminator

predetor

predator

These are cool statues we found in a shop, terminator, predator and many others. They come in many sizes

car

carhandle

This is the car we rented to drive around. SOOOO outdated, notice the windows handles ;P and where the speed meters are! So damn FUNNY. We had a blast driving that thing around

learndrive

They had these all over the place, I guess everyone was learning how to drive. It has a funny name
“بالحصا … غصب طيب تتعلم ولا نحوكك وحدة”

lostindubai

lostindubai2

The time we got lost trying to reach China Town, hehehe, it was hilarious!

map

Surprisingly, the map we used to get around. Damn, my brother can drive and masha’Allah know his way around using that map only :D

marinapicnic

Remember girls, the picnic we had in Marina LOL. The weather was beautiful and the food was great but what was greater the company :*

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My Day

I was a bit shocked when I was told that I am sooo stubborn, I know I am kinda thick headed but not to that extent they described it!

Problem noted, so whenever I am having one of my fits, I try and measure how stubborn I really am … and maybe bring that down a notch

Another issue with mother and my room, she is having one of her cleaning epiphanies and taking it all out of course on dear old me!!

I got a bit mad … and took everything they moved back to place …

I was going to clean my room ,which is semi-tidy by the way, but she made her speech about invading my room and throwing everything out and like a teenager it struck a strong cord!!

Woke up this morning, went to the saloon -yes finally- to calm down the sorry excuse of a hair I have and decided to work on my stubbornness and tidy a FEW things when I get home … surprisingly she did move a couple of stuff but not back to my room!! and kept them the way I wanted them, outside my room, but in different places

I put on some music and start tidying stuff up

As I was about to carry some stuff outside I notice a glimpse of her exiting my room, she had to check what I was doing and like the mom I know, she had to come back with this silly smile on her face she was trying hard to hide ;P

I was going to tell her, “mom you can smile, laugh, you can dance around if you want to, yes I am cleaning my room

شنو هذا اللي حاطته

music

طبعا المسألة ترقيع … كانت تبي تطمن اني قاعد أنظف

Mom, I believe she is going to be like that till the day I die. I am in my 50′s and she in her 90′s. Harrassing me about my room and “أهم شي اني للحين راح أكون أستأذن قبل ما أطلع”

kdcowmilk

يمكن البعض راح تلوع جبده من الصوره

Seriously some people don’t drink milk!!! That’s strange! Well in my family, we are used to drink cold milk and straight outta the bottle ;D No sugar needed if it is cold. I used to take one in the morning and some people actually cringe!

I was having this as I was tidying my room. Anyway I had to take several photos of this for it to be this clear and not fuzzy ;)

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Family Half Price Day Out

“Mm ok ako film oN 10-6-2015 .. 7ejzelena”

That’s one of my bros making FUN of me because I booked days ahead for batman’s new movie “The Dark Knight” and txted them all with the details. Well I booked Wednesday night for Monday ;) But that’s just to make sure we get good seats and actually find tickets on the half day price

Nine tickets for the whole family at 1.5 KD so I am actually playing it smart and saving half the money ;) and this time I booked for the whole family and I usually break it into groups, like I book 5 tickets together and then two twos and then one, so if I want to cancel some tickets I don’t have to cancel all and book again

thedarkknight1

The film was amazing, it is rather a dark movie but the best Batman movie ever. I enjoyed it soooo much and Heath Ledger is amazing in his role, the way he played the joker is so damn scary. Some new characters are revealed in the movie. It was rather long, 2.5 hrs but worth it all the way.

Next on my list Hell Boy II, it looks fabulous … I can’t wait ;D

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Play Station 3 – Home at Last

There was a debate in the family, as always when a new gaming device comes out. Who should pay and how much, usually we all do

But as the years pass by, I tend to play less and less, so we reached PlayStation 2 and as always pitched in, my game is Tomb Raider, yes, I like Lara Croft and not because she is a woman and this is a girl’s game, it is simply because it is a damn good game

They usually screw the poor thing up and then again we have to pay for the repairs or buy a totally new one, I think we got three Play Station 2 !!!

So this time I said, I am not going to pay but I am going to play, kinda my new law. And sensing some kind of rebellious act, I reminded them of the ups and downs of pleasing me or NOT :D hehehe, advantages of being the big sister with a job :D

Yesterday PlayStation 3 arrived and my young brother invited me to play some assassination game where two people try to kill each other, well he managed to KILL me over five times, sitting atop that roof with sniper in hand shooting at me and once as I was dying I threw a grenade to take him with me, but couldn’t quite manage that ;P

I know that they are going to “يطلعون اني ما دفعت من جبدي” but I’ll enjoy free gaming as long as I can and wait for that Tomb Raider on Play Station 3

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Wedding Thoughts

Nothing beats … fa6ooma’s ‘هب السعد’

I absolutely love this song, though I don’t know all its lyrics, it is just so soothing and amazing

A perfect song for a perfect occasion

wedding-cake

Note to self, why didn’t they call me when they threw in the bride’s flower bouquet!! It’s the first time I attend a wedding to do this, but what I know is they call all the bachelorettes … hmmmmmm I wonder why .. am I that scary …

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Ski Dubai

Both of us stood at the front of the ski booth

What do you think we should go for?

How about the ski board, it looks more fun

You got that right let’s go for it!!

My bro and I signed up for the discovery ski lesson, I was so looking forward to it. In fact we were looking for sky diving as well but they said it was all the way in Jabal Ali and we only had this day off and it was rather expensive. The bright side, We’ll have something to look for next time ;D

We got the gears and clothes and waited for the instructor

I looked ridiculous in the outfit ;p

So which way will you be going, I think I’ll be more comfortable going left

hmmmm, really, I think I’ll be going the other way, it seems easier

Then the instructor comes and we were three, my big bro, an Englishman and myself. The instructor began explaining about the board and then about how to ski

Most people go left, this is called the regular way and few people go right and this is called the “goofy” way !!!!

Out of the corner of my eyes, even without looking at him, I knew he was enjoying this, my big brother is thriving

I fidgeted and asked: Excuse me, but why do they call it the goofy way, I’m not sure which way I’ll go but I think I’ll be more comfortable going right. I’ll try both ways before deciding …

The instructor says, No you see it’s just a name, ahhhh many people go right, I can do both ways …

and then what happens … my big bro …

No you see, goofy as in the cartoon, she is goofy!!! As in mickey mouse …

and starts laughing away and mocking me!!! Big brothers!!!

Maskeen the Instructor was trying to explain and my brother was laughing at me going the goofy way

Anyway I elbowed him and called him crazy ;)

And the lessons begin, it is much harder than it seems and through it my bro turns to me and says good thing we didn’t go directly to the slope and I agreed telling him that two human snowballs would have been coming down the huge slope made of him and I ;P -we thought we can skip the lesson and teach ourselves-

In one we had to slide down and touch the snow with our hands and get up

The other guy went first and fell after touching the snow

My big bro did it of course

I went down, touched the snow and got up :D … my bro didn’t see it, so he was screaming touch then snow touch the snow .. I yelled back .. I DID KHALAS and banged to the spongy wall … the other guy was laughing

The last lesson was to come down the slope and learn how to stop yourself by lifting you toes, first time at the end I fell and couldn’t get up, I had to roll over

Second time, the instructor let go and I went swishing down the slope and this guy is in front of me and I was trying to say MOVE but all that came out was eeeeeeeeeeeeeee and crazy hand gestures ;P thankfully I didn’t bump into him but into the spongy wall :D

It was crazy, I fell so many times and got up and did it again, I LOVED IT

They have this small escalating belt you go up with and then you’re up the tiny slope. If I wanted to sit down on the snow I just throw myself

You never actually feel the cold because it is an extensive sport, I was sweating and wiping off my runny nose all the time ;P

The instructor liked us all saying we were pretty good for first timers. He especially praised my bro and that made his day, he is so competitive :)

We finished and changed. The boots are so heavy and the clothes as well. When I got out of the dressing room, I had to look at myself several times to make sure I had put on my clothes, because I felt so light ;P

We got our snowboarding achievement passport for discovery lessons, I can’t wait for the next time I’ll be doing the next level. It is such a life reviving sport :D

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My Day

I got some searching to do and a report to write, so for change of scenery and some quiet time I went to a coffee shop to search and took my bro’s laptop and guess what it didn’t boot, it is official the HDD DIED!!! I think the poor thing spiralled itself to self destruction, last time I went to my bro’s room, I saw the laptop on the floor and I always tell him it is a laptop when you are done turn it off, hibernate the poor thing, standby, I literally smelled something burning from within, I opened it took it out and put it back in, yes it’s not hardwired to the motherboard ;P, so a trip to Hawally is a must and I might get him one of those cooling docking stations to give the poor thing a chance. The HDD started giving problems a while back so I took off my data ;P which isn’t much, anyways my bro doesn’t have anything on it, he just uses it for chatting, movies, web browsing, the usual. The good thing is that I get to pop it open later on because it is already dead, I have my cool tool set on standby.

There is something nasty going on with our network, I can’t point my finger at it. It is driving me crazy. I just discovered a software that comes with Microsoft exchange, Sybari, it is a content-management, antivirus, and e-mail security solution, where mostly you need to purchase a license. Supposedly there is a worm with its own SMTP engine fooling around and I can’t catch the source yet. And oh boy do I hate McAfee, who the fuck developed their management interface, so I suspect a machine and I want to force a scan or get the latest scan statistics, couldn’t figure it out. OK, the open ports a stupid ‘how to’ to answer my questions, a thing that can be done in minutes is taking hours!!! Good thing we are upgrading, starting from scratch, what we are currently deploying is a lousy excuse of an antivirus application, the poor technician is going to have a hell of a time with me standing over their head.

Sometimes you come across the right thing when you most need it …

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

Henry Ford

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My Weekend :D

This weekend is different, it is just what I needed after the hectic week I had … I totally enjoyed it ..

6ab3an I slept like a log that I wake up with a sour back ;P nevertheless, I am up around 8 am ..

Throughout the weekend, I had breakfast outside, gone out with the girls, visited family, shopping and yes finally fixed the family’s PC. I totally relaxed :D

The PC took about one day to be up and running. I didn’t want to format it because I didn’t want to re-install drivers, applications, etc. every part of it is from somewhere and I don’t have the proper CDs and I didn’t take an image and honestly fixing it is much more FUN ;P bas not to give my brothers any hints that I don’t mind, ‘at7aldam’ all the time. What have you done, you infected it with viruses, malwares, everything is corrupt, WTH, what are you using this software for??? How many times have I told you not to install anything!!! this is the last time I’ll be fixing this!!! ;P ‘a3eesh el-drama’

After I finished and told my big bro to install their new war game I go and take my other bro’s laptop to check my emails and surf the web and what happens … with my luck … I think trouble loves me … his laptop won’t start … this error message comes up when the system tries to boot up

Media test failure, check cable, Operating system not found

OK, it should boot up from the hard disk and isn’t the HD wired to the motherboard … this is my assumption since it’s a laptop … so I check the boot menu … everything seems fine but I reset it back to default … nothing worked, I was thinking about opening the insides of the laptop .. I was afraid that the hard disk ‘3adakom 3omrah’ bas thank GOD a have a copy of windows xp so I booted from that and repaired the OS and everything went back to normal … I think I had enough of IT this week …

If anyone has something working and needs it to go crazy just have me trot around or I can just send my lil bros they do amazing work ;P

Yeah and I found this nice software (System Mechanic Professional) that you can have for 30-days as trial but I used it and it’s awesome … it basically fixes your PC, by checking its overall performance your HD, memory, registry keys, infections, etc. check it out

And also, AVG spyware remover, it helped alot with my famila’s PC and it’s free ;D

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How Today Started

confused

Woke up today thinking it Wednesday!!! Great tomorrow is a holiday just what I need. Before I got out the house I asked my brother,

What’s today?
Tuesday …
NOOOO, it’s not Wednesday …
laaaa it’s Tuesday ….
Laish … How come it feels like Wednesday … arghhh … malee khilq …

I’m a bit excited because some of my tasks are going well and as well as my testing .. thank GOD … thank GOD … thank GOD …

The only problem I have sometimes is getting a testing buddy … like if what I want to do needs more than one end whether it’s a user, workstation, device, service …

I can connect to the external network, nevertheless, I can only satisfy one part of the process, for example if what I just set up is allowed to be accessed in terms of rules and services monitoring but not quality …

So here where my big bro comes in the picture …

Ring Ring

Allooo
Yes, it worked. Hehehehe
????
No … I’m just testing something with the phones … and it worked …
Ahhhh
Good good … how are you doing …..

Ring Ring

Allooo
Hey MAN … can you access …
Wait … Nope
Ok … Now ..
YUP
Great … how are you doing …..

Ring Ring

Allooo
Hey MAN … what’s your ISP …
Not sure ..
What public IPs you’re using ..
Not sure .. we’re having Internet problems
I know .. but not locally right …
Yeah …
Anyway I wanted you to do something … not important … how are you doing …..

As he was going to work …

Hey MAN do you have a camera at work …
????
Web Cam …
Nope … why …
I wanted to try something out …
Why are you happy ???
Nothing … have a nice day :D

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